It is time rather to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future.
We have been deeply wronged upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or injure in return; have retained throughout...
We desire neither conquest nor advantage.
It has been impossible to avoid them.
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able.
I cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart hesitating to defend these things.
We must defend our commerce and the lives of our people in the midst of the present trying circumstances, with discretio...
War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
No one doubts what it is our duty to do.
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington,...
public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at twelve o'clock on the fifth day of March ne...
It is hereby ordered that all of the lands of the United States hereinafter described be, and the same are hereby, withd...
By virtue of the power and authority vested in and conferred upon me by the laws of the United States in that behalf mad...
Chinese persons, arriving from foreign ports, who desire to enter the Canal Zone in transit to other countries, may be p...
No Chinese person shall be allowed to enter into or remain in the Canal Zone, except as provided in this order; and any ...
Any Chinese person who shall come into the Canal Zone, with the intention of passing into the Republic of Panama, in con...
The master of any vessel from a foreign port, with one or more Chinese persons on board, stopping at a port in the Canal...
Every person who aids or abets in the violation of this order shall be deemed equally guilty with the master of the vess...
